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Professional Regulations and Skills

Understanding professional regulations can be daunting, but we've divided it up into useful topics, such as informed content, ethical standards, and protocol compliance. This page also includes a wealth of information related to translational research skills, from mentoring to writing and presenting. It also covers popular topics such as finding grants and optimizing your translational research career.

Lessons from SUPPORT: Ethical Implications for Research on Medical Practices

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After reviewing the seminar, you will be able to
1. identify major components of Support (SUrfactant Positive airway pressure and Pulse OximetRy Trial);
2. describe ethical Implications for research on medical practices, such as underlying challenge of medical practice.

Intermediate

Research Participant Compensation: What is Fair?

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Ethical issues associated with paying research participants; the pros and cons of past and current payment model; Overview of how vulnerable groups are affected.

Basic

CRES: Patient Registries

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Procedure about how to register patient (Disease) and how to set up and maintain registries; typical use and access of registries; Overview of Human subjects regulations.

Issues surrounding data sharing, informed consent d managing biobanks; The agreements, procedures, conventions, or policies that define who gets power, how decisions are taken and how accountability is rendered.

Basic

CRES: Ethical Complexity of Pediatric Research

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The complexity of running clinical trials in pediatrics with discussion of issues about consent and appropriate study design involving children.

Advanced

CRES: Resolving Ethical Dilemmas in Clinical Research Studies

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Types of ethical issues that can emerge during the course of a research study; Approaches about how to disclose information to research participants and family member; resources to address unanticipated issues.

Advanced

CRES: Expert Panel; Investigator and Staff Responsibilities in Clinical Research

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Introduction about clinic research proposal review process; Overview of director’s role and current projects; Proposed training for faculty and staff.

Information about finding funding for international research; Overview of US regulations, institutional requirements and ethical standards to international research; Operational checklist and challenges for establishing a research program abroad.

Basic

CRES: Mid-study Ethical Dilemmas: What to do?

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Types of ethical issues that can emerge during the course of a research study; Approaches about how to disclose information to research participants and family member; resources to address unanticipated issues.

Definition of Conflict of Interest; GIM 10 and the UW process for reviewing disclosures of significant financial interests by researchers; the new UW Medicine Conflict of Interest Policy and how it relates to GIM 10 and the Outside Work Policy; the State Ethics Act and its applicability to UW research and tech transfer activities.

Overview of the purpose of a monitor's site visit; Tips on preparing for a monitor's visit and forming a collaborative relationship with the monitor.

Basic

CRES: Working with Investigational Drug Services to Meet FDA Expectations

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Policy and FDA regulations and ways in which UW investigators can work with the IDS in order to comply.

Basic

CRES: Preparing for an FDA Inspection

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Overview of an FDA inspection including what records, staff, and other resources must be reviewed and available; Guidelines for interacting with the inspector; Understanding what happens after the inspection.

Overview of PI responsibilities and strategies on organizing a research team; hiring research staff; effective training for research support staff; appropriate delegation of tasks to staff; successfully supervising research staff.

Basic

Making the Most of your Mentor: A Guide for Mentees

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Introduction to mentoring, stages of mentoring; Discussion on special situations.

Basic

CDS: Giving and Receiving Effective Feedback

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The key components of effective feedback as well as techniques for providing feedback in particularly challenging situations (e.g., to a defensive learner, to a superior).

Basic

Translational research - Getting Started - How to find a project and a mentor

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The importance of mentoring and finding a good mentor and their experiences in the agonies and ecstasies of academic research.

Basic

Effective Feedback: Giving and Getting

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Ways to engender effective feedback from and to both mentor and mentee as well as colleague to colleague.

fundamentals of grant review and effective strategies in writing and how to avoid frequent mistakes.

Intermediate

How to Use Center Grants for Advancing an Academic Research Career

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Overview of the P-series grants; Best practice about how junior faculty applied for and benefited from the P-award.

Basic

How to Successfully Create a Grant Budget

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Key elements of a well prepared budget; Procedures about how federal regulations inform the UW budgeting process; key budgeting terminology and their use in budget preparation.

Basic

Special CDS event: NIH 101: Grantsmanship

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Overview of the new NIH policies on New & Early Stage Investigators; the increased importance of the Specific Aims page; the steps needed in organizing and writing an effective research grant application.

Basic

How to Get your Foot in the Door- Tips to Get an Early Investigator Award

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Perspectives and insights into developing a successful K grant application.

Basic

Tips for Successful Pilot Grant Applications

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Tips that investigators can use to enhance the likelihood of a successful pilot grant application through the ITHS's Community Outreach and Research Translation (CORT) core.

Basic

Writing a K Award Application: Tips from a Reviewer

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Specific advice from experts on writing the various sections of a successful application.

Basic

NIH Study Sections: Secrets and Advice from Study Section Leaders

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Overview of how grants are reviewed, with advice from experienced and successful researchers.

Basic

What Happens to your Grant - NIH Study Sections Secrets and Insights

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Overview of how grants are reviewed, with advice from experienced and successful researchers.

Basic

Writing Your First Grant - How to get started

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Techniques, tips and important things to consider when writing your first grant application.

Basic

Tips and Tricks for Grant-Writing Success: Having Fun While Shaping your Next Application

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Techniques, tips and important things to consider when writing grant application.

Dr. Goldberg covers a number of topics such as:
Twin frequency (one in every 30 infants born in 2009 was a twin)
The value of having twin registries
Estimates of how likely you to inherit disorders such as asthma or obesity
How the VET registry was used to study PTSD (genes versus environment)
How the VET registry was used to examine the effects of walkable neighborhoods (built environment) and health

Intermediate

Suppression of statin effectiveness by copper and zinc in yeast and human cells

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Identification of Metal-Statin Interactions in a Yeast-Based Screen; Ergosterol and Intermediates are Impacted by Statin and Metal; Altered Gene Expression Induced by Statin and Metal;An Integrated Genomic and Metabolomic Model for Metal-Statin Interaction.

Partners and Collaborators

The Institute is supported by grants UL1TR000423, KL2TR000421, and TL1TR000422 from the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational
Sciences through the Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program (CTSA).

Please help us continue to support your research by citing our grant number(s) in publications we supported.